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1. and it's just self-defence (until you're building a weapon) by mavzhnaya

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   20 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Cyno/Sethos (Genshin Impact)
   • Sethos (Genshin Impact)
   • Cyno (Genshin Impact)
   • Post-Cyno's Story Quest: Lupus Aureus Act II: Oathkeeper
   • Organization: Temple of Silence (Genshin Impact)
   • Mentioned Hermanubis (Genshin Impact)
   • Jealousy
   • Identity Issues
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Religious Guilt
   • Self-Hatred
   • Masturbation
   • self-electrocution
   • Sexual Fantasy
   • Insecurity
   • Secret Animosity
   • Inferiority Complex
   • Sethos is a Mess (Genshin Impact)
   • Confessions
   • Song: Girl So Confusing (Charli XCX)
   • Kissing
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • No Beta We Die Like Lord Hermanubis
   • Character Study

   Summary

   Faith was all that Sethos had ever known, and the Temple of Silence made him both a worshipper and the worshipped.

   Or:

   The loss of Hermanubis's blessing makes Sethos question everything that he used to believe about himself. Cyno quickly becomes an object of his fascination, and also the reason for his self-loathing.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   10,375

   Chapters:

   1/1

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